St. Robert of Newminster Catholic Parish

Mass Times:

Saturday: 4:30 PM
Sunday: 8:30 AM, 11:00 AM, 5:30 PM

Weekday Masses: Please see our website!

www.strobert.org

St. Robert of Newminster, located on the east end of Capitol Drive in Shorewood, WI, is a special place - not because of what we have, our beautiful church and other blessings, but who we are now and who we are becoming.

For its members, St. Robert is a spiritual home where, as a community of believers, we celebrate the Eucharist and become Christ to one another. We share prayer and support one another through prayer. We offer lifelong faith formation and respond to the needs that arise in our parish family. And, we work together to build a just society in collaboration with the global Church, our brothers and sisters in the Body of Christ.

Parish History:

St. Robert of Newminster Parish was incorporated in 1912. The first Mass was celebrated in a small wooden building hastily constructed on the south side of Mineral Spring Rd. (Capitol Dr.) on July 6, 1913. A permanent church/school building was erected by October, 1913, and the wooden church was razed.

St. Robert School was opened in September, 1915, with four grades on the second floor of the church/school building. From 1915 until 2002, it was staffed by Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa, Wisconsin. The church/school building was added to in 1927, and again in 1958.

In 1937, the current St. Robert Church, a Milwaukee County Landmark and outstanding example of Lombardy Romanesque architecture, was erected, at which time the church space in the school became school space.
Msgr. Farrel P. Reilly was the founding pastor and served until his death in 1958. There have been six succeeding pastors: Rev. Gerald E. McGinnity, Msgr. Frank M. Schneider, Msgr. Harold O. Prudell, Rev. Richard J. Cerpich, Rev. John J. Pulice, and Rev. Dennis A. Dirkx.

For more information about the history of St. Robert of Newminster Parish, please visit our website history page.

http://www.strobert.org/About_Robert0041/Robert_Parish_Years_Centennial_Celebration0259/Robert_Centennial_History_Detail0260.html